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Date:	Tue, 02 Apr 2002 11:18:06 -0500
To:	Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Developers AT cygwin DOT com>,
	Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Developers AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Interesting pipe feature.
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At 11:00 AM 4/2/2002, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>The command
>   `echo $COMSPEC | sed -e 's#\\#/#g#'`
>works great on NT4 - SP6.  However, on NT4 - SP5 and on XPh (XP for
>home) it issues something similar to
>   bash.exe: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found.
>
>Any insight on this problem?



In bash on W2K, this gives me:

sed: -e expression #1, char 9: Unknown option to 's'

I had to remove the final '#' after the 'g' to get this to work right.
Was that a typo Earnie or is that part of the problem you're seeing?



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